Quotes About Influence

The human mind, or spirit, extends outside the human body and interacts with the outside material world.

Copresence occurs when an alter personality in the background takes joint control of the body without displacing the primary personality, or when it influences the primary personalities mental state from the background.

We can all change the people around us by changing ourselves.

The church is probably the world's largest civic society organization—present in virtually every nation and every community, and having an immense impact on how people think. If the church can harness this influence to inspire people to care more for creation and to act upon this care, then the world will be a very different place.

like the wing of the chaffinch, both the truth and authority have to undergo natural selection. The new meansof persuasion are to be as smoothly and stylistically designed as a 48-track digital tape studio, quiet as a Rolls, appealing as a glamorous face. From hot systems of social control, destructive of the environment, wasteful of sensitive and limited power systems, the progress is towards elegant and entertaining designer-systems of pressure and influence.

You see this dub thing, I was the one who invented it in 1965. People think it came later. But sometimes when I got a song to mix I used to just rub out the lyrics and remake it, and add in all kind of echoes and reverb and all that. Cause to tell you the truth, that is how I was seeing myself–like somebody whose voice got rubbed out.

There was a Lao proverb that called teachers the engineers of the soul

Jakie spo?ecze?stwo, taka literatura. (how society is, such is literature)

DaÅ' ci Bóg nikczemnÄ… posta?, jeÅ›li siÄ™ ludzie nie bÄ™dÄ… ciebie bali, to siÄ™ bÄ™dÄ… z ciebie Å›mieli.

It is not Atlas who carries the world on his shoulders, but woman; and sometimes she plays with it as with a ball.

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One's bearing shapes one's fate.

What really corrupts is not power, but a sense of powerlessness.

I did grow up next door to Steve McQueen, who was a very famous movie star at the time, but as a kid it didn't impress me. We always had great fun with him. He would take us out on Sundays on his motorcycles, riding around in the desert he was like a second father.

If you examine the list of Fellows of the Econometrics Society in 1954 you will find the names of 20 of the first 27 prizewinners. I was a duly certified member of the Econometric Mafia...Without that accreditation, I suspect I would not have won the prize.

History is not the study of origins; rather it is the analysis of all the mediations by which the past was turned into our present.

Once you get people laughing, they're listening and you can tell them almost anything.

Next to religion, baseball has furnished a greater impact on American life than any other institution

I'm the only person of distinction who has ever had a depression named for him.

It is just as important that business keep out of government as that government keep out of business.

I'm the only person of distinction who's ever had a depression named after him.

General Motors, General Mills, General Foods, general ignorance, general apathy, and general cussedness elect presidents and Congressmen and maintain them in power.

The worth of a civilization or a culture is not valued in the terms of its material wealth or military power, but by the quality and achievements of its representative individuals - its philosophers, its poets and its artists.

For manipulation to be most effective, evidence of its presence should be nonexistent... It is essential, therefore, that people who are manipulated believe in the neutrality of their key social institutions.